Good morning and welcome to episode 524 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from

Baseball Prospectus presented by the baseballreference.com play index. I am Ben Lienberg of Grantland.com,

joined by Sam Miller of baseballperspectus.com. Hello. Hello. How are you? Okay.

So some congratulations are in order to our friend Jason Parks. Yes, very in order. Yeah.

Leaving BP to take a job scouting with the Chicago Cubs and it sounds like a cool scouting job.

Not that they're not all cool, but this one is kind of a hybrid. He gets to do pro scouting and

amateur scouting and international scouting. So that's kind of cool. Yeah, I think that the only thing

more flattering in this world than getting hired by somebody is getting hired for a job that they

created for you. Right. Yes. That's true. And he's good timing. He's climbing aboard a

which seems to be a ship that's on the way up and he can take credit for that when it happens.

Yeah. On the other hand, he's climbing aboard a ship that has been

sinking for a century. Yeah. I don't know how well this ship metaphor is working. Let's move on.

So there was an Angelton Simmons play and normally we would have probably watched it together,

but we've probably seen it separately now. What did you think of this play? Very good play.

Hot take. Yeah, I agree. Do you have it in front of you? I'd like to rewatch it. I do.

I'm just rewatching it over and over. So the main, I mean, the impressive part or the more

impressive part is the throw. The throw is getting to it was good, but I feel like a lot of short

steps could have gotten to it. You know, I I don't I want to slightly dispute that though. I think

that the first moment of that play that makes it brilliant is that he got to it while staying on

his feet. You can see he had to extend while running. He had to extend. Yeah. Which is a very hard

move to make. I don't think I don't think any other shortstop even tries to get that on his feet.

I think they all try to do the pop up. I don't yeah, I don't even know if if many short

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